Paneer `e Khaas

Ingredients

Cottage cheese(Paneer) - 250 gm
Fresh capsicum - 25 gm
Green chilly - 1 no
Fresh ginger - 25 gm
Garlic pods(small) - 2 - 3 nos
Corn flour - 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Edible colour (green) - 3 ml
or
Mint leaves paste - 20 gm
Fresh curd - 100 gm
Black pepper(ground) - 1/2 tsp
Cooking oil - 10 ml
Chat masala - 1 tsp
Freshly chopped coriander or dried grounded mint leaves for garnishing

Method
1)Cut paneer into 10 equal pieces (cubes).

2)Grate the fresh capsicum, along with fresh ginger, green chilly and garlic.

3)Add them to curd along with the corn flour, salt, pepper, colour and mint leaves paste (chutney).

4)Pour them in a bowl and whip/beat for about 8 minutes, till you get a thick green, evenly whipped paste.

5)Pierce fine holes (5-6) on the paneer cubicles with a matchstick or a toothpick.

6)Marinate the paneer cubicles in the paste for about 6 hrs.

7)Put the marinated paneer cubicles on the skewer sticks of your tandoor oven or OTG and barbeque for about 20 minutes at temp. of 250 -300 degrees centigrade.

8)Put a few drops of cooking oil/butter on the cheese, if you like the cheese to be brown and crispier!!

:- One can also cook this in a microwave oven. (For best results, earthen oven is recommended). The OTG results are equally good!!

9)Garnish the barbequed cheese with sprinkled chat masala, grounded dry mint leaves or freshly chopped coriander.

:- You can also finely chop green cabbage leaves with fresh carrot for garnishing.

:- Serve the juicy capsicum flavored paneer cubicles with fresh lime and chutney/ketchup!!